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TurbulentAd4089 t1_iydit5e wrote

Americans with italian descent can have an italian accent

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LocalAfter4312 OP t1_iydjfq4 wrote

Yeah, man, I grew up in Jersey, I have never met a non-immigrant like Mario Mario who sounded anything close to the way Mario has been depicted. While I won't rule out the possibility, he grew up in Brooklyn, with his infancy being spent on Yoshi's Island. He is literally more likely to speak in Yoshi sound effects than with the thick accent he's been depicted. The movie voices are better for the characters.

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funkwox t1_iydljen wrote

Huh. This Yoshi dialect thing is…a pretty good point.

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Dreaming_Kitsune t1_iydqmcr wrote

Y'know I don't blame Mario for becoming a mass murderer of goombas and koopas after I heard the Yoshi's character select song.... Shit is still stuck in my head

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pizzaplate24 t1_iyej2gy wrote

Actually, technically worse, Mario is a mass murderer of the Mushroom Kingdom inhabitants themselves. If I remember the instruction manual lore from the original game, King Koopa transformed the mushroom people into bricks. So ... every time you played and jumped to smash a brick ......

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daily_peeps t1_iydlzt9 wrote

Lived in NY most of my life and yes they have an accent but it's def not the same accent as someone from Italy who first learned to speak Italian. Italian Americans love to juice up certain words but no one from Italy would mistake their accent for anything but Italian-American. Dude is right

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